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Auxilliary Light Install KGT

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The premise of this DIY is that I wanted to have auxillary lights on the bike mounted under the oil cooler area as in the RT, and I did not want to mount them on the caliper as others have. After some searching and vendor calls I realized they do not make mounts for under the cowl for the newer KGT.

However I was provided a link for Jimmy Mounts from BMW Denver. These mounts are made specifically for the PIAA* Style lights so I ordered them. They mount under the rear view mirrors. I checked them out and they looked pretty good (to me) so they were ordered.

* although made for the PIAA light it appears they will accept any vertically mounted style light

Step four - modify wiring to support High Beam shut off of aux lights - check your local law requirements

** Please note that using the Jimmy mounts and the amount of excess wiring provided in the harness you WILL have to cut the harness and connectors in various places - this will obviously void any warranty provided by PIAA so please be fully cogninzant of this aspect of the install if you plan to do it.

Jimmy Mount Preparation

Shown here is the sequence of hardware that will be used to mount the Jimmy Mount to the bike.

From left, it will be a Hex screw, with a washer, the plastic sleeve slides on next and then that hole combination is put into the mounting hole and then the hex bolt is threaded onto the bike supporting the mount.

The bottom of the Jimmy Mount will flush mount to the side of the front cowl - even though I do not plan to remove the mounts I did not want to have the area damaged by the permanent contact, so I added some rubberized tape onto the mounting area to protect the painted surface that will be in contact here.

Light Preparation

Since I am going to cut off the connector, I wanted to identify/maintain the same wire polarities to the lights.

I checked both connectors and if you pull them out straight you will note that one wire will be slightly longer (green arrow) because there was more slack, in my case, the longer wire in each connector is associated to the ground side of the wiring.

So the shorter wire is postive, the longer is negative and it was the same for the other light.